Traditional ballads are narrative folksongs - simply put, they are folksongs that tell stories. They tell all kinds of stories, including histories, legends, fairy tales, animal fables, jokes, and tales …

Traditional ballads are written in a meter called common meter, which consists of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) with lines of iambic trimeter (six syllables). Many ballads …

2019年5月9日 · A ballad is simply a narrative poem or song, and there are many variations on balladry. Traditional folk ballads began with the anonymous wandering minstrels of the Middle …

Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and …

2024年12月31日 · ballad, short narrative folk song, whose distinctive style crystallized in Europe in the late Middle Ages and persists to the present day in communities where literacy, urban …

Full Contents of the Ballad Index : View the Annotated Table of Contents (list of songs in the Index, with descriptions if you hover over them). Quick Contents of the Ballad Index : Un …

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The Traditional Ballad Index is a collaborative effort designed to help people find reference information on folk ballads. It is not itself a source of song texts or of discussion of ballads, …

2024年12月31日 · Ballad - Folk, Narrative, Epic: The traditional folk ballad, sometimes called the Child ballad in deference to Francis Child, the scholar who compiled the definitive English …

The Traditional Ballad Index is a collaborative effort designed to help people find reference information on folk ballads. This page is designed to let you find ballads by entering titles or …